[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 134 (Thursday, July 14, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 42164-42165]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-15023]


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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

[Docket No.: ED-2022-SCC-0059]


Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the 
Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment 
Request; 2023-24 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS:24) 
Field Test--Institution Contacting and List Collection

AGENCY: Institute of Educational Science (IES), Department of Education 
(ED).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, ED is 
proposing a revision of a currently approved information collection.

DATES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments on or before 
August 15, 2022.

ADDRESSES: Written comments and recommendations for proposed 
information collection requests should be sent within 30 days of 
publication of this notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. Find 
this information collection request (ICR) by selecting ``Department of 
Education'' under ``Currently Under Review,'' then check ``Only Show 
ICR for Public Comment'' checkbox. Reginfo.gov provides two links to 
view documents related to this information collection request. 
Information collection forms and instructions may be found by clicking 
on the ``View Information Collection (IC) List'' link. Supporting 
statements and other supporting documentation may be found by clicking 
on the ``View Supporting Statement and Other Documents'' link.
    Comments may also be sent to [email protected].

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For specific questions related to 
collection activities, please contact Carrie Claraday, 202-245-6347.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Department, in accordance with the 
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA) (44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)), 
provides the general public and Federal agencies with an opportunity to 
comment on proposed, revised, and continuing collections of 
information. This helps the Department assess the impact of its 
information collection requirements and minimize the public's reporting 
burden. It also helps the public understand the Department's 
information collection requirements and provide the requested data in 
the desired format. ED is soliciting comments on the proposed 
information collection request (ICR) that is described below. The 
Department is especially interested in public comment addressing the 
following issues: (1) is this collection necessary to the proper 
functions of the Department; (2) will this information be processed and 
used in a timely manner; (3) is the estimate of burden accurate; (4) 
how might the Department enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of 
the information to be collected; and (5) how might the Department 
minimize the burden of this collection on the respondents, including 
through the use of information technology. Please note that written 
comments received in response to this notice will be considered public 
records.
    Title of Collection: 2023-24 National Postsecondary Student Aid 
Study (NPSAS:24) Field Test--Institution Contacting and List 
Collection.
    OMB Control Number: 1850-0666.
    Type of Review: A revision of a currently approved information 
collection.
    Respondents/Affected Public: Individuals and Households.
    Total Estimated Number of Annual Responses: 505.
    Total Estimated Number of Annual Burden Hours: 1,232.
    Abstract: This request is to conduct the 2023-24 National 
Postsecondary Student Aid Study Institution Contacting and List 
Collection Field Test (NPSAS:24 FT). This study is being conducted by 
the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), within the 
Institute of Education Sciences (IES), part of the U.S. Department of 
Education. This submission covers materials and procedures related to 
institution sampling, enrollment list collection, and matching to 
administrative data files as part of the NPSAS:24 FT data collection 
and includes details about the full-scale institution sampling and 
enrollment list data collection. NCES will submit a separate clearance 
package covering the student FT data collection, including the student 
record data abstraction and student surveys, in the summer of 2022. The 
materials and procedures for NPSAS:24 are based on those developed for 
previous institution-based data collections, including the 2019-20 
National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS:20) [OMB #1850-0666 
v.23], and the 2017-18 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study 
Administrative Collection (NPSAS:18-AC) [1850-0666 v.21]. The first 
NPSAS was implemented by NCES during the 1986-87 academic year to meet 
the need for national data about significant financial aid issues. 
Since 1987, NPSAS has been fielded every 2 to 4 years, most recently 
during the 2019-20 academic year (NPSAS:20). NPSAS:24 will be 
nationally-representative. The NPSAS:24 field test sample size will be 
6,000 students, and the full-scale sample will include 137,000 
nationally representative undergraduate and 25,000 nationally 
representative graduate students who will be asked to complete a survey 
and for whom we will collect student records and administrative data. 
If the full-scale budget allows, we will include state-representative 
sampling for the full-scale collection and provide the budget for a 
state-representative sampling plan in the 30-day full-scale package, 
planned for 2023. Also, if exercised, NPSAS:24 will serve as the base 
year for the 2024 cohort of the Baccalaureate and Beyond (B&B) 
Longitudinal Study and will include a nationally representative sample 
of students who will complete requirements for the bachelor's degree 
during the NPSAS year (i.e., completed at some point between July 1, 
2022 and June 30, 2023 for the field test and July 1, 2023 to June 30, 
2024 for the full-scale). Subsets of questions in the student survey 
will focus on describing aspects of the experience of students in their 
last year of postsecondary education, including student debt and 
education experiences. This submission is designed to adequately 
justify the

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need for and overall practical utility of the full study, presenting 
the overarching plan for all of the phases of the institution sampling 
and enrollment list data collection and providing as much detail about 
the measures to be used as is available at the time of this submission. 
As part of this submission, NCES is publishing a notice in the Federal 
Register allowing first a 60- and then a 30-day public comment period. 
Field test materials, procedures, and results will inform the full-
scale study. After completion of this field test, NCES will publish a 
notice in the Federal Register allowing additional 30-day public 
comment period on the final details of the NPSAS:24 full-scale 
institution sampling and enrollment list study.

    Dated: July 11, 2022.
Stephanie Valentine,
PRA Coordinator, Strategic Collections and Clearance Governance and 
Strategy Division, Office of Chief Data Officer, Office of Planning, 
Evaluation and Policy Development.
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